Tag: 2017 SS COLA

Portrait of modern senior woman with shopping cart choosing fruits and vegetables in supermarket

This annual adjustment always raises the question of what’s the right price index.   The Social Security Administration recently announced that in 2017 beneficiaries will receive a cost-of-living adjustment of 0.3 percent, after having received no increase for inflation in 2016.  Automatic indexing is generally viewed as a positive feature of social security systems, bot…